Texas is often called a landlord-friendly state, and in some respects it is. But friendly does not mean unregulated. The Property Code sets a hard deadline for rekeying, spells out when a late fee can be charged, dictates what a lockout notice must say, and attaches statutory penalties plus attorney's fees to ordinary operational mistakes.
This guide is educational, not legal advice. Statutes are amended and facts matter, so consult a qualified Texas attorney for property-specific questions. What follows maps the obligations that come up most often in DFW single-family and small-portfolio rentals, with the statute cited for each so you can read the primary source yourself.
Which Laws Actually Govern Your DFW Rental?
There is no single "Texas landlord-tenant act." Your obligations come from four layers.
Texas Property Code Chapter 92 is the main body of residential landlord-tenant law: repairs, security deposits, security devices and rekeying, smoke alarms, ownership disclosure, retaliation, late fees, lockouts, utility interruption, and occupancy limits.
Texas Property Code Chapter 24 governs forcible entry and detainer, the legal name for eviction — the only lawful way to remove a resident who will not leave.
Federal law adds the Fair Housing Act and the lead-based paint disclosure rule for homes built before 1978.
Local ordinances are the layer owners miss most. Several DFW cities run rental registration or inspection programs on inconsistent terms.
Two structural points matter before the details. First, many important Chapter 92 rights and duties cannot be waived, while others may be modified only through a written agreement satisfying specific statutory conditions. A lease clause does not override a nonwaivable statutory requirement merely because the tenant signed it. Section 92.006 provides that duties and remedies concerning security deposits, security devices, ownership disclosure, and utility cutoffs may not be waived, and the duty to install a smoke alarm may not be waived either, though the inspection and repair duty may be waived by written agreement.
Second, several sections shift attorney's fees to the prevailing party. A $300 disagreement is not a $300 problem once a judgment includes the resident's legal costs.
What Repairs Is a Texas Landlord Required to Make?
The core duty is in Section 92.052. A landlord must make a diligent effort to repair or remedy a condition when three things are true at once:
- The tenant specifies the condition in a notice to the person to whom, or the place where, rent is normally paid.
- The tenant is not delinquent in rent at the time notice is given.
- The condition either materially affects the physical health or safety of an ordinary tenant, or arises from the landlord's failure to provide and maintain in good operating condition a device supplying hot water of a minimum temperature of 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
Two limits follow. Under Section 92.052(b), the statutory repair duty generally does not require the landlord to bear responsibility for a condition caused by the tenant, an occupant, family member, or guest, except where the condition results from ordinary wear and tear. Serious conditions should still be evaluated promptly, with responsibility for the cost handled separately. Under Section 92.052(c), the subchapter does not require furnishing utilities where the utility company's lines are not reasonably available, or furnishing security guards.
Note what starts the obligation: notice. Section 92.052(d) requires the tenant's notice to be in writing only if the lease is in writing and requires it. Unless a written lease validly requires written notice, an oral report to the person or place designated for rent may trigger the landlord's repair duty. However, the tenant generally must satisfy additional written-notice requirements before exercising statutory termination, repair-and-deduct, or judicial remedies.
How Long Do You Have to Make a Repair?
The statute says "a reasonable time." Section 92.056(d) puts a number on it: a rebuttable presumption that seven days is reasonable, rebutted by considering when the landlord received the notice, the severity and nature of the condition, and the reasonable availability of materials, labor, and utilities.
Seven days is a presumption, not a ceiling, but the burden of rebutting it is yours: dispatch dates, quotes, and parts-order confirmations are what turn "we were working on it" into a defense.
Section 92.056(b) adds a second gate before liability attaches: the tenant must either have sent the original notice by a tracked method such as certified mail return receipt requested, or have given a subsequent written notice after a reasonable time, and must not have been delinquent when any required notice was given.
Section 92.056(g) adds a drafting requirement most owners miss: the lease must state the remedies available under that section and Section 92.0561 in underlined or bold print.
What Can a Tenant Do If You Do Not Repair?
Section 92.056(e) identifies three principal remedies when its requirements are met: terminate the lease; use the repair-and-deduct procedure under Section 92.0561; or pursue judicial remedies under Section 92.0563.
Repair-and-deduct matters most because it happens without a court. Section 92.0561(b) caps the deduction at one month's rent or $500, whichever is greater, measured against the monthly total.
It is not available for every repair. Section 92.0561(d) requires a repair duty, notices with at least one stating an intent to repair, and one of four triggering events: raw sewage backup or interior flooding; total cessation of potable water the landlord agreed to furnish; inadequate heat or cooled air from landlord-furnished equipment where a local official has given written notice that it materially affects health or safety; or written notice from such an official as to any other condition materially affecting health or safety.
Repair-and-deduct is a technical statutory procedure, not a general right to hire a vendor whenever a landlord is slow. A tenant who fails to satisfy the notice, waiting-period, contractor, documentation, cost, or condition requirements may make an improper rent deduction.
The waiting periods in Section 92.0561(e) are short: three days for a total loss of potable water or for inadequate heat or cooling, and seven days for other qualifying conditions. Certain sewage-backup and interior-flooding conditions can qualify for an expedited repair-and-deduct procedure without the longer three- or seven-day waiting period, but the other statutory prerequisites still apply. These are exactly the conditions where a slow response is most expensive — see our guide to rental maintenance expectations for DFW landlords.
When Do You Have to Rekey, and What Locks Are Required?
Subchapter D covers security devices and contains the deadline owners miss most. Section 92.156(a) requires that a security device operated by a key, card, or combination be rekeyed by the landlord at the landlord's expense not later than the seventh day after each tenant turnover date, which Section 92.151 defines as the date a tenant moves in after all previous occupants have moved out. The clock runs from the new resident's move-in, not the old resident's move-out. The obligation reaches devices operated by keys, cards, or combinations, not just the front-door deadbolt. Although the statute permits rekeying no later than the seventh day after the turnover date, the safer operational practice is to rekey before the new tenant receives possession whenever possible. Section 92.156(b) lets a tenant request additional rekeying at the tenant's expense, without limit on the number of requests.
Depending on the type and configuration of each door or window, Section 92.153 generally requires specified security devices, subject to detailed statutory alternatives and exemptions. The devices most often at issue are:
- A window latch on each exterior window
- A doorknob lock or keyed dead bolt on each exterior door
- A sliding door pin lock on each exterior sliding glass door
- A sliding door handle latch or security bar on each exterior sliding glass door
- A keyless bolting device and a door viewer on each exterior door
Treat that list as a starting point, not a universal checklist. The statute sets different rules for French doors and sliding glass doors, defines keyless bolting devices with specific alternatives, and exempts some configurations entirely — so the correct device set depends on how each opening on your particular property is built. These are installed at the landlord's expense under Section 92.153(c), must be operable throughout the tenant's possession under subsection (h), and are subject to specific exemptions in the same section. When a tenant requests installation, repair, or rekeying, Section 92.161(a) requires compliance within a reasonable time, presumed to be seven days. The make-ready is where this either happens or does not — see our rental make-ready checklist for DFW.
What Are the Smoke Alarm Rules?
Section 92.255(a) sets placement: at least one smoke alarm in each separate bedroom; inside the room if the unit uses a single room for dining, living, and sleeping; at least one in the corridor in the immediate vicinity of bedrooms served by the same corridor; and at least one on each level of a multi-level unit.
Section 92.254 sets the device standard, including that the alarm be audible in the bedrooms it serves. Section 92.255(b) addresses older housing, which describes much of DFW: if the unit was occupied before September 1, 2011, or a certificate of occupancy issued before that date, an alarm may be battery powered and need not be interconnected. Chapter 92's allowance for certain older dwellings does not override a more demanding applicable fire, building, renovation, or local-code requirement. Confirm current requirements when replacing alarms or substantially renovating a property.
Section 92.258 splits the duty in two. Under subsection (b), the landlord must determine the alarm is in good working order at the beginning of the tenant's possession by testing with smoke, operating the test button, or following the manufacturer's procedure. Under subsection (c), during the lease the duty to inspect and repair arises only when the tenant gives notice of a malfunction or requests an inspection, with an exception for tenant-caused damage unless the tenant pays the cost in advance. Under subsection (f), you need not supply batteries after possession begins if the alarm worked at move-in.
Documenting the move-in test is important evidence of compliance — a condition form that specifically records smoke alarm testing beats a general note that everything worked.
How Much Can You Charge as a Late Fee in Texas?
Section 92.019 was amended in 2019 and is stricter than many older leases assume.
A late fee may not be collected unless all three of these are true: notice of the fee is in a written lease, the fee is reasonable, and any portion of the rent has remained unpaid two full days after the date rent was originally due. That two-day floor is statutory and cannot be shortened by lease language.
Section 92.019(a-1) creates the safe harbor. A late fee is considered reasonable if it is not more than:
- 12 percent of the rent for the rental period, for a dwelling in a structure containing not more than four dwelling units, or
- 10 percent of the rent for the rental period, for a dwelling in a structure containing more than four dwelling units
A higher fee is permitted only if it does not exceed uncertain damages to the landlord related to the late payment, including direct or indirect expenses, costs, or overhead associated with collection. That is a fact question you would have to prove, which is why most owners of single-family and small properties stay at or under 12 percent.
Section 92.019(b) treats an initial fee plus a daily fee as a single late fee for purposes of the cap, so stacking cannot exceed it indirectly. Section 92.019(c) makes a violating landlord liable for $100, three times the late fee collected in violation, and the tenant's reasonable attorney's fees, and subsection (d) makes any waiver void.
For a home renting at $2,400, a 12 percent late fee is $288. If rent is due on the first day of the month, it must remain unpaid through the second and third — the two full days after the due date — before the late fee may be charged on the fourth.
Can You Ever Lock Out a Tenant?
Section 92.0081 is the most dangerous section in the code for an owner acting on instinct. Subsection (a) prohibits removing doors, windows, locks, or landlord-furnished appliances and fixtures except for a bona fide repair or replacement that is promptly performed. Subsection (b) prohibits intentionally preventing a tenant from entering except by judicial process, with three exceptions: bona fide repairs, construction, or an emergency; removing the contents of abandoned premises; or changing the door locks on the door of an individual unit of a tenant delinquent in paying at least part of the rent.
That third exception is narrow and procedurally demanding. Subsection (d) requires the lease to grant the right and advance written notice — mailed locally by the fifth calendar day before, or hand-delivered or posted inside the main entry door by the third — stating the earliest proposed date, the amount needed to prevent the change, where rent can be paid, and, in underlined or bold print, the tenant's right to a key at any hour regardless of payment. Subsection (c) requires a front-door notice giving a 24-hour on-site location or phone number producing a key within two hours. Lock changes are also barred when no one is available to take payment, on common areas, while any legal occupant is inside, and more than once per rental payment period.
Subsection (h) sets the penalty: the tenant may recover possession or terminate the lease, plus a civil penalty of one month's rent and $1,000, actual damages, court costs, and attorney's fees. Subsection (i) adds another month's rent if you refuse the key. Because the procedure is technical, does not allow the landlord to withhold the replacement key, and carries substantial penalties for error, Blue Atlas generally recommends using it only under a standardized, attorney-reviewed process — if at all. That is an operational recommendation, not the legal rule: the statute permits the practice within its limits. The alternative is the ordinary possession suit — see the Texas eviction process for DFW landlords.
Can You Shut Off Utilities to Force a Move-Out?
No. Section 92.008(a) prohibits interrupting utility service the tenant pays directly to the utility company, and subsection (b) applies the same rule to water, wastewater, gas, or electric service the landlord furnishes as an incident of the tenancy, unless the interruption results from bona fide repairs, construction, or an emergency. Nonpayment of rent is not an exception.
This does not necessarily make the landlord responsible for preventing a utility company from terminating service on a tenant-controlled account. The prohibition concerns interruption caused or directed by the landlord, subject to the statute's specific provisions.
What Counts as Retaliation?
Section 92.331(a) protects a tenant who, in good faith, exercises a right or remedy granted by lease, ordinance, or statute; gives a notice to repair under Chapter 92; complains to a code enforcement entity, public utility, or civic or nonprofit agency about a code violation or utility problem; or participates in a tenant organization.
Subsection (b) sets a six-month window. During the six months after specified protected activity, adverse landlord action — filing an eviction proceeding, depriving the tenant of the use of the premises except as authorized by law, decreasing services, increasing rent, terminating the lease, or engaging in bad faith in a course of conduct that materially interferes with the tenant's lease rights — may be challenged as retaliatory. The landlord may still act on legitimate statutory grounds, including qualifying delinquency, material lease breach, property damage, threats, or holdover circumstances.
Section 92.332 is what preserves those grounds: eviction or termination is not retaliation where the tenant is delinquent when notice is given or suit is filed, intentionally damages property or threatens personal safety, materially breaches the lease, or holds over in the circumstances the section describes. Section 92.333 sets the exposure: one month's rent plus $500, actual damages, court costs, and attorney's fees.
Timing matters because an adverse action taken within six months of protected tenant activity may support a retaliation claim. Contemporaneous documentation of a preexisting, consistently applied business reason can help rebut that inference, but timing alone does not automatically establish or defeat liability.
What Do You Have to Disclose to a Tenant?
Section 92.201(a) requires disclosing the name and a street or post office box address of the holder of record title according to county deed records, and, if an off-site entity primarily manages the dwelling, the name and street address of the management company. Subsection (b) allows three delivery methods: in writing within seven days of a tenant's request, continuous conspicuous posting within the same seven days, or inclusion in the lease or written rules given before any request. The third is the clean option because it removes the deadline. Treat the disclosure as living information rather than a one-time form: a property manager's address change or ownership transfer should trigger review and updating of the disclosure rather than waiting for a tenant request.
Three other duties come up routinely.
Copy of the lease. Section 92.024(a) requires providing at least one complete copy of the lease to at least one tenant no later than the third business day after the lease has been signed by all parties. Under subsection (d) a court must abate an enforcement action other than one for nonpayment until the copy is provided. If you deliver leases electronically, confirm that the lease and your recordkeeping process actually support electronic delivery, and keep proof of when the copy was sent.
Floodplain and flood history. Section 92.0135(b) requires a written notice, substantially in the statutory form, stating whether the landlord is aware the dwelling is in a 100-year floodplain, and subsection (d) requires a second notice if the landlord knows flooding damaged any part of the dwelling at least once in the five years before the lease's effective date. Under subsection (e) both must appear in the lease, an addendum, or a separate signed document given at or before execution. Use the statutory language substantially as written. The disclosure addresses the landlord's awareness and known flood history; it is not a representation that the property will or will not flood or that a flood map is error-free. Statutory tenant remedies may arise from a failure to provide a required disclosure where the premises later suffer a qualifying flood loss.
Occupancy limits. Section 92.010 generally limits the number of adult occupants a landlord may knowingly permit to three per bedroom, subject to statutory exceptions and other applicable fair-housing and occupancy laws. It is a statutory ceiling on adult occupants, not a screening formula, and it does not mean children are irrelevant for every other purpose.
What Does Federal Fair Housing Law Require?
The Fair Housing Act prohibits housing discrimination because of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, and disability. The operative statutory language is at 42 U.S.C. Section 3604.
Section 3604(a) makes it unlawful to refuse to rent after a bona fide offer, refuse to negotiate a rental, or otherwise make unavailable or deny a dwelling on a protected basis, and Section 3604(b) prohibits discrimination in the terms, conditions, or privileges of a rental.
Section 3604(c) catches owners who write their own listings. It prohibits publishing any notice, statement, or advertisement about a rental that indicates a preference, limitation, or discrimination on a protected basis. Copy describing the ideal resident rather than the property is where this goes wrong: a home "perfect for a single professional" or a neighborhood "great for young families" describes people, not square footage. Steering is the same problem in conversation.
Section 3604(f)(3)(B) requires reasonable accommodations in rules, policies, practices, or services when necessary to give a person with a disability equal opportunity to use and enjoy a dwelling. In practice that usually surfaces as an assistance animal request against a no-pet policy; our guide to pets, service animals, and ESAs in DFW rentals covers it.
The federal Act contains narrow exemptions for certain owner-occupied properties and some single-family homes rented without broker or agent involvement. Professionally managed rentals generally should not assume an exemption applies, and advertising restrictions can remain applicable even where another exemption exists. Our guide to pets, service animals, and ESAs in DFW rentals walks through the 42 U.S.C. Section 3603(b) language in more detail.
The strongest operational protection is a lawful written policy, consistently and individually applied, supported by complete records: write your criteria before you take applications, apply them in the same order to everyone, and keep the file. Our tenant screening guide for DFW rental owners covers criteria that hold up.
Fair housing is not the only federal layer. Federal law also affects screening, military-service cases, bankruptcy, federally covered housing, and certain eviction notices. This guide focuses only on the issues most common in ordinary private rentals, but it is worth knowing the names: the CARES Act 30-day notice requirement for covered properties, the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, the automatic stay in bankruptcy, the Violence Against Women Act for covered housing programs, and the Fair Credit Reporting Act for screening reports and adverse-action notices. Each has its own scope, and none of them is addressed in depth here.
What About Lead Paint in Older DFW Homes?
Federal law requires lead-based paint disclosure for most housing constructed before 1978, subject to defined regulatory exemptions. Under the EPA's real estate disclosure rule, landlords must disclose known information about the presence of lead-based paint and its hazards, provide all available records and reports, give tenants the "Protect Your Family From Lead In Your Home" pamphlet, and include a Lead Warning Statement in or attached to the lease. A signed copy of the disclosure must be kept for three years from the date the lease begins.
EPA identifies specific exemptions, including zero-bedroom dwellings such as efficiencies, lofts, and dormitories; leases of 100 days or less where no renewal or extension can occur, such as short-term rentals; housing designated for the elderly or persons with disabilities, provided no child under six resides or is expected to reside there; and housing in which painted surfaces have been tested by a certified lead-based paint inspector or risk assessor and found to be free of lead-based paint. Confirm any exemption against the current EPA rule before relying on it — DFW's older housing stock makes this a live issue, and the disclosure and pamphlet requirements are not optional where the rule applies. Renters, unlike homebuyers, do not get the 10-day inspection period.
Disclosure is also not the whole obligation. Separate EPA renovation rules may apply when a landlord or contractor disturbs painted surfaces in pre-1978 housing. Under the Renovation, Repair and Painting rule, firms paid to perform work that disturbs painted surfaces in pre-1978 target housing generally must be EPA lead-safe certified and use certified renovators and lead-safe work practices. Disclosure compliance does not replace the use of properly certified renovation practices where required.
Do DFW Cities Add Their Own Rules?
Yes, and the state code says nothing about it, which is why owners miss it. Several DFW cities operate rental registration or inspection programs, and registration frequency, fees, inspection cycles, exemptions, and enforcement all differ.
Dallas is a concrete example. As of July 2026, Dallas states that its Code Compliance department runs a Single-Family Rental Registration and Inspection Program under Chapter 27 of the city code, and that beginning October 1, 2025, owners must register annually by submitting an online application, a non-refundable fee of $74.00, and an annual Owner's Self Inspection Checklist with an affidavit for each dwelling unit. The city also states the program requires an inspection at least once every five years, and not more often than once a year.
The program's materials reference single-family homes, duplexes, and condominium units, but the controlling definitions, coverage, and exemptions live in Chapter 27 itself rather than in the summary pages — do not assume a duplex or condominium is treated identically to a detached single-family home. Read the ordinance or ask Code Compliance about your specific property, and confirm the fee and dates before you file, since city programs change.
Do not assume any of that transfers to Fort Worth, Arlington, Plano, Irving, Garland, or Denton. Some DFW cities run registration programs on different terms, some tie inspections to occupancy changes, and some have neither. Verify with the city that has jurisdiction over your address, and check whether the property sits inside a city limit at all. Start with our DFW city guides hub, then confirm specifics with that city's code compliance department.
Where Do Deposits and Evictions Fit?
Security deposits are governed by Subchapter C. The headline rule is Section 92.103(a): refund the deposit on or before the 30th day after the tenant surrenders the premises, subject to the forwarding address requirement in Section 92.107. Several qualifications matter even at this summary level. Whether and when a tenant has surrendered the premises is fact-specific rather than a date you pick. Deductions must be itemized in writing where the statute requires it. Ordinary wear and tear is not chargeable to the deposit. Advance rent may be treated differently from a security deposit. Bad-faith retention or failure to account carries statutory presumptions and penalties plus attorney's fees. And a refund may not be conditioned on requirements the statute does not permit. Itemization rules, bad faith penalties, and the documentation that makes a deduction defensible are in our Texas security deposit guide for DFW landlords.
Eviction is governed by Chapter 24. The threshold requirement is Section 24.005(a): give a tenant who defaults or holds over at least three days' written notice to vacate before filing a forcible detainer suit, unless the parties contracted for a shorter or longer period in a written lease. The contractual and state-law notice period remains subject to any longer controlling federal requirement applicable to covered housing. A suit on holdover grounds must also satisfy the tenancy termination requirements of Section 91.001. The full sequence is in our Texas eviction process guide for DFW landlords.
Statutory Deadlines at a Glance
| Obligation | Deadline | Statute |
|---|---|---|
| Provide a complete copy of the signed lease | No later than the 3rd business day after the lease has been signed by all parties | Tex. Prop. Code § 92.024(a) |
| Earliest a late fee may be charged | Rent unpaid 2 full days after originally due | § 92.019(a)(3) |
| Repair a condition after proper notice | Rebuttable presumption of 7 days | § 92.056(d) |
| Rekey key/card/combination security devices | Not later than 7th day after tenant turnover date | § 92.156(a) |
| Disclose ownership and management on request | 7th day after request | § 92.201(b) |
| Advance notice before a lock change for delinquency | 5 days if mailed; 3 if hand-delivered or posted | § 92.0081(d)(3) |
| Retaliation exposure window after a protected act | 6 months | § 92.331(b) |
| Refund or account for a security deposit | 30th day after surrender of the premises | § 92.103(a) |
| Written notice to vacate before filing eviction | At least 3 days unless the lease specifies otherwise | § 24.005(a) |
A Practical Compliance Checklist
Most compliance failures are gaps, not decisions: a rekey nobody scheduled, a repair request that never reached a system, a late fee copied from a pre-2019 template.
Before you list
- A lawful written screening policy set and dated before any application is reviewed, to be applied consistently and individually with complete records kept
- Listing copy that describes the property, never the ideal occupant
- Lease on a current Texas form, including the Section 92.056(g) repair-remedy language
- Late fee provision within the safe harbor for your property type
- Floodplain, flood-history, and, for pre-1978 homes, lead-based paint disclosures ready
- City registration or inspection status confirmed for the address
At turnover and move-in
- Rekey all key, card, or combination devices within seven days of move-in, at your expense
- Verify every device required by Section 92.153 is present and operable
- Test every smoke alarm, confirm placement, and record it on the move-in form
- Provide a complete copy of the lease no later than the third business day after the lease has been signed by all parties
- Deliver ownership and management disclosure in the lease itself
- Document move-in condition with dated photographs
During the tenancy and at move-out
- Every maintenance request captured in one timestamped system, however it arrives
- Health and safety conditions triaged against the seven-day presumption
- Vendor dispatch, quotes, and parts delays documented when a repair runs long
- Configure the system so the fee is not charged until rent has remained unpaid for two full days after the original due date (due on the first → no fee before the fourth), applied on the same schedule for everyone
- Renewal and rent decisions made on a documented calendar, not after a complaint
- Blue Atlas policy: do not use delinquency lock changes absent an attorney-reviewed exception; never use lock changes or utility interruption to recover possession
- Deductions supported by invoices and deposit accounting completed within 30 days
How Professional Management Keeps Owners Compliant
None of this is beyond a diligent self-manager. What defeats self-managers is not knowledge but calendar discipline across many small deadlines. Professional management turns these obligations into recurring workflow. Rekeys are scheduled off the move-in date rather than remembered. Maintenance requests land in one timestamped system, so the seven-day presumption is measured instead of guessed at. Late fees are configured once against the statutory limits and applied uniformly. Screening criteria are applied in the same order to every applicant, disclosures are built into the lease packet, and deposit accounting runs against a 30-day clock.
Blue Atlas Realty manages hundreds of DFW rental homes with a focus on single-family rentals and small portfolios, at 4.9% monthly management for new clients with no maintenance markup — see the management fees page and the owner services overview. One boundary worth stating plainly: Blue Atlas is not a law firm and does not give legal advice. Our role is to keep the operating process organized — written criteria, documented communication, maintenance records, owner approvals, and an attorney handoff when a matter needs legal review.
For a read on how your property is positioned today, start with a free rental analysis.
Sources
- Texas Property Code Chapter 92, Residential Tenancies — Texas Constitution and Statutes, accessed July 2026
- Texas Property Code Chapter 24, Forcible Entry and Detainer — Texas Constitution and Statutes, accessed July 2026
- 42 U.S.C. § 3604, Discrimination in the sale or rental of housing — U.S. Government Publishing Office, accessed July 2026
- Housing Discrimination Under the Fair Housing Act — U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, accessed July 2026
- Real Estate Disclosure: Lead-Based Paint — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, accessed July 2026
- Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting Program — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, accessed July 2026
- Single-Family Rental Registration and Inspection Program — City of Dallas Code Compliance, accessed July 2026